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Re: Over 135 million modems vulnerable to denial-of-service flaw

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In article <c8854324eae8e8977009ee17a2d1c7c1@anemone.mooo.com>
Jeremy Bentham <nobody@anemone.mooo.com> wrote:
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> http://www.zdnet.com/article/millions-of-routers-vulnerable-to-unpatched-reboot-flaw/

That zdnet article is erroneous and inaccurate.

Resetting those cable modems does nothing but cause them to 
reboot and reload a config file.

BUT, an attacker has to be ON a PRIVATE RFC 1918 network, 
inaccessible from the Internet in ALL cases.

They would also have to connect to each modem in order to 
accomplish said feat.  It would take a very long time to scan 
the entire address space and find any modems in it.

Article grade, D--.

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